Osama bin Laden and George Bush are both terrorists. They are both building international networks that perpetrate terror and devastate people’s life. Bush, with the Pentagon, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. Bin Laden with Al Qaeda. The difference is that nobody elected bin Laden. Bush was elected (in a manner of speaking), so U.S. citizens are more responsible for his actions than Iraqis are for the actions of Saddam Hussein or Afghans are for the Taliban. And yet hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans have been killed, either by economic sanctions or cruise missiles, and we’re told that these deaths are the results of ‘just wars.’ If there is such a thing as a just war, who is to decide what is just and what is not? Whose God is going to decide that?

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2004), Arundathi Roy (via bonapartay)

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